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Italian unification ( -RSB- ) , also known as the Risorgimento ( , -RSB- ; meaning " the Resurgence " ) , was the political and social movement that consolidated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century .

Italian unification , also known as the Risorgimento ( meaning " the Resurgence " ) , refers to the Italian movement that united the Italian states in the 19th century .